Happy, happy, happy 80th birthday Grandma/Greatgrandma Howe! We love you so much and wanted to send you our greetings accross the miles. We sure would have loved to be there with you for your special day, but trips from Peru to Florida are sort of rare for us. But we hope it won't be too long untill we see you again. The children had a fun morning the day that we decided that making signs for great-grandma and then taking pictures would be our main school subject for the day. The photo session was really funny, cause the batteries on the camera were almost out.... We would line up a pose, then turn the camera on, snap several photos in rapid sucession, and then quickly turn the camera off untill the next pose ws ready. (I had thought of waiting till the batteries were charged and then taking photos in the afternoon, but by the time that faces were washed and their hair was combed, the children were so excited about taking the picture that I didn't want to make them wait.) When we were all done the children asked, "May we make paper airplanes out of the signs now?" So they did! I tried to take a picture of that for you, but the batteries were all dead by then. We love you and hope that this gift brightens your day! Lots of love: Betsie, Gordon, Elisabeth, Susanna, Samuel, Isaiah and baby.
